Word: sermonizer
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Emily Dickinson, delicate iridescent poet, is the impish New England recluse that hovers within charming mystery. With her father once she journeyed to Philadelphia; went of a Sunday to church, heard a sermon, fell in love with the preacher. The preacher was a married man; Emily Dickinson put him out of her life and then turned poet. Rebel against the Puritanism of her day (1830-86) she could hardly have made the sacrifice from prudishness. But perhaps it was from gentle reluctance to distress the preacher's wife, and her own family. Or perhaps it was a mystic self-denial...
...clock--Baccalaureate Sermon by President Lowell. Following the service will be a reception to the Senior class at the President's home at 17 Quincy Street...
...exercises this year will be held during the week of June 16-21 resident Lowell, who has preached the Baccalaureate Sermon for the last 19 years, has consented to do so again. The Senior Class Chapel Service on the morning of Class Day will be conducted by C. N. Greenough '98. J. E. Barrett '30 has been appointed by the Class Day Committee as Head Class Day Usher for the Juniors and will also officiate as Head Usher for the Senior Spread on June 17. Other appointments will be announced at a later date...
...mistress-as-long-as-compatible, he hired vivacious Molly; for driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle player. Dan first saw Fortune racing from a village with the entire population thundering hotfooted in his wake. Cornered in a barn, Fortune delivered, gasping, a hell-and-damnation sermon which left not a member of his congregation unchastised. Afterward he explained to Dan'l that he had contracted to give six sermons, but finding only five at the bookstalls, he necessarily made off before the sixth. Sheer terror inspired the extemporaneous barnyard Jeremiad...
Shaw. Said Mr. Shaw (in the course of a 1000-word essay): "To propose such a transaction to Mr. H. G. Wells is like offering the Archbishop of Canterbury a handsome cheque for dropping a recommendation of somebody's shoes or soap into his next sermon, or sounding the Astronomer Royal as to the possibility of keeping the clock back for half an hour during a big sale. ... Its acceptance would be the last depravity of corruption in literature. . . . For ... an author to accept payment from a commercial enterprise for using his influence to induce the public...